Conservative opposition leaders yesterday threatened to bring "millions" of demonstrators into Rome's streets if President Giorgio Napolitano does not call immediate elections in the wake of the collapse of Prime Minister Romano Prodi's center-left coalition. Mr. Napolitano had a third day of consultations with leaders of political parties from across the spectrum to try to fill the power vacuum left after Mr. Prodi, 68, resigned last week after his defeat in a parliamentary vote of confidence.
Greek prime minister to reshuffle Cabinet ATHENS, Greece - Greece's prime minister, struggling to ensure Parliamentary approval for a crucial austerity bill, said Wednesday that he would reshuffle his Cabinet and seek a vote of confidence for his new government after coalition talks with opposition parties failed.
Belgium: Sworn in BRUSSELS -- A new government took office Tuesday that is nearly a replica of the quarrelsome alliance of Christian Democrats, Liberals and Socialists that quit earlier this month in a bank bailout scandal. The new premier, Herman van Rompuy, 61, succeeds fellow Christian Democrat Yves Leterme, whose government quit Dec. 19 amid allegations that Leterme and his justice minister interfered in a court case dealing with the sale of Fortis Bank. King Albert swore in the new Cabinet during a ceremony at the royal palace. The government, which must be approved in a parliamentary vote of confidence Friday, plans to pursue policies identical to that of its predecessor.
Czech: No confidence PRAGUE -- The Czech government collapsed Tuesday after losing a parliamentary no-confidence vote over its handling of the economic crisis.
In a parliamentary system of government, a vote of no confidence has a simple outcome. The government falls, elections are held and a new government takes office. The voters spoke on Tuesday, and they gave the mayor, the City Council and the city administration a resounding vote of no confidence.
WASHINGTON -- How serious is the "thumpin"' the Republicans took on Tuesday? Losing one house is significant but hardly historic. Losing both houses, however, is defeat of a different order of magnitude, the equivalent in a parliamentary system of a vote of no confidence. On Tuesday, Democrats took control of the House and the Senate. As of this writing, they won 29 House seats (with a handful still in the balance), slightly below the post-1930 average for the six-year itch in a two-term presidency. They took the Senate by the thinnest of margins -- a one-vote majority, delivered to them by a margin of 7,188 votes in Virginia and 2,847 in Montana.
Greece's prime minister, struggling to ensure parliamentary approval for a crucial austerity bill, said Wednesday he would reshuffle his Cabinet and seek a vote of confidence after coalition talks with opposition parties failed. The talks collapsed as rioters clashed with police in the streets of Athens. - The Associated Press
Today Lebanon is bracing for a showdown over the presidency. It could be a bloody summer, as the presidential election looms in late September. The president is appointed by a majority vote in Parliament. After the last parliamentary election, in June 2005, Hariri's Future Movement and its allies won seventy-two seats in the 128-member legislature. But with several defections, [Walid Eido]'s killing, and that of another legislator last November, whose seat remains unfilled, the parliamentary majority is down to sixty-eight. If the majority loses another four members - either by death or defection - it will no longer be able to determine the next president. "Eido was assassinated to reduce the parliamentary majority in order to bring the government down," Samir Geagea, leader of the Leba...
... could fall in a parliamentary no-confidence vote. Siniora's twenty-four-member cabinet, has be...
How serious is the "thumpin' " the Republicans took on Tuesday? Losing one house is significant but hardly historic. Losing both houses, however, is defeat of a different order of magnitude, the equivalent in a parliamentary system of a vote of no confidence. On Tuesday, Democrats took control of the House and the Senate. They took the Senate by the thinnest of margins - a one-vote majority, delivered to them by a margin of 7,188 votes in Virginia and 2,847 in Montana.
Fifty-five years ago a coup d'état ended Prime Minister Muhammad Mosaddeq's government in Iran on August 19, 1953. Numerous books and articles have analyzed the event but often have overlooked Iran's domestic dynamics. What is presented is nearly always a conspiracy theory that suggests American and British masters of intrigue subverted Iran entirely through their shady operators. The picture portrays Iranians as little more than inanimate objects - a nation of potted plants. Even now over half a century later, and three decades after the fall of Iran's monarchy, misperceptions persist. A review of the coup and what precipitated it may offer some needed clarity.
... of political parties in a loose parliamentary coalition called the National Front - held togethe... day, and annual budget appropriations often voted on for a month at a time.15. Forming a new governm... government by a parliamentary vote of confidence. Majlis representatives were all elected by popula...
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